What If The Sun Swallowed Jupiter?

something incredibly strange is happening a mysterious gravitational disturbance is altering our Solar System Jupiter is now on a crash course with the Sun what happens when one gas giant collides with an even more gigantic one how would Jupiter Journey to the Center of the solar system would the sun become even bigger and more powerful and how might this be a life-threatening situation for us here on Earth this is what if and here's what would happen if the sun swallowed Jupiter okay before watching the greatest Collision in our solar systems history it'd be good to explore

a couple of the ways this event could unfold in the first place in order for Jupiter to crash into the sun something truly extraordinary would need to happen its orbit would need to be drastically altered by a gravitational disturbance and not just any disturbance an absolutely massive one the most likely culprits would be a rogue star or a black hole passing dangerously close to our solar system and these objects would have to be really huge at the very least they'd need to be a couple times more massive than our sun as they drift through Interstellar

space they'd eventually interact with Jupiter's own gravitational field and considering that Jupiter is about 318 times more massive than Earth its gravitational field is an expansive one and whether this Rogue star or black hole tugs it in One Direction or transfers a bunch of kinetic energy it would make Jupiter's orbit increasingly eccentric but there's a pretty big catch here though somehow those gigantic Rogue objects would have to pass by at the exact right moment a moment where they would only impact Jupiter otherwise it wouldn't be the only planet in our neighborhood kening out of orbit

and toward an imminent heat death after a few billion years of orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 778 million km Jupiter would begin death dive toward our star but this wouldn't happen overnight it could take years decades maybe even centuries the gas giant would need to travel this incredibly vast distance accelerating faster and faster under the immense pull of the Sun's gravity this process is known as spiraling orbital Decay and it would result in Jupiter orbiting in Tighter and Tighter spirals until well it reaches Oblivion the next phase of this planetary destruction would

occur when Jupiter would be close enough to be torn apart this is known as the RO limit and for a body as big as Jupiter it would begin when it's just under 900,000 km from the Sun at a distance this close the planet would become tidy locked just like Mercury is this means that it would only make one full rotation on its axis for every full rotation around the star but for that to occur before the planet starts to disintegrate its rotation speeds would also need to undergo significant changes currently Jupiter makes one full turn

every 10 hours but to become truly tidy locked at this distance it would need to more than double its rotation speed if this were to happen only one side of Jupiter would ever fully face the Sun and each of the two sides would experience varying levels of gravitational pull with the day side or near side getting stretched out more and more Jupiter would no longer resemble a gigantic gaseous sphere instead it would have a more oblong elliptical shape you can almost imagine Jupiter going through the process of getting spaghettified like what happens when an object

crosses over the Event Horizon of a black hole though this would be slightly less extreme but that doesn't mean it's not the end of days for our biggest neighbor it's atmosphere would be getting stripped away forming a glowing ring of dust and gas around the Sun this is called an accretion disc and this is where Jupiter's existential plunge would get really interesting both the planet and the sun are mostly made up of hydrogen and helium so as juper gets absorbed would the sun get bigger and more powerful well considering that our planet is already warming

at a dangerous Pace this could trigger some alarm bells for you but don't worry too much this Collision isn't about to change much in terms of the sun's energy output as big as Jupiter is it's only about 0.1% the mass of the Sun so we're not talking about a hugely noticeable difference that for a short amount of time the sun would be a bit brighter as it converts all of Jupiter's energy this would be the first effect that this whole scenario would have back here on Earth you'd be treated to a little extra sunlight during

the day and the night sky would be a bit brighter as you watch Jupiter's final days before it vanishes into the Sun the biggest effect would come from the gigantic gravitational hole that Jupiter would be leaving in our solar system for billions of years it acted as a so-called Cosmic vacuum cleaner by attracting comets and asteroids of all shapes and sizes without its presence Earth would find itself exposed to dangers in entirely new ways the chances of impacts from large objects known as Planet Killers would become higher and that would be one of the greatest

existential risks for all life forms on our planet but odds are just odds right we could always find ourselves in the flight path of one of these Cosmic objects I wonder which ones we should be most worried about maybe one of these asteroids could end up hitting the moon well that might be tough for our space correspondent Chase as you might have seen lately on the channel Chase has been going on tons of different missions for us from spending 5 seconds on the lakes of Titan to jumping inside Uranus unfortunately he doesn't always make it

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